Probably the easiest criticism of Seth MacFarlane’s “sexist” “
Why couldn’t the song have been about men?
To that end, flowy-locked New York software developer Kevin Gisi has released his own gender-swapped version of “We Saw Your Boobs,” called “We Saw Your Junk.” If I had one criticism of this, it’s that he doesn’t use Harvey Keitel for the breakdown. Come on! If ever there was a male Kate Winslet, it’s Harvey Keitel. Harvey Keitel’s penis has been in The Piano (which he mentions), Bad Lieutenant, and Ulysses’ Gaze, and those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head. I’m sure Harvey Keitel’s penis has been a bunch of places, places I can’t even imagine.
If I had a second criticism of this, it would be WHY ISN’T A WOMYN SINGING IT, HUH? Is it because Kevin Gisi doesn’t think women are funny? Is it because he thinks women can’t sing? Oh yeah, nice one, dude, I guess you’ve never heard of Taylor Swift or Aretha Franklin. If a woman sang this, YouTube would probably only pay her 70% of a man’s ad-sharing, because that’s the world we live in. That’s the reality. Kevin Gisi is probably some jock redneck who thinks women should just stay in the kitchen baking and popping out babies and not singing, and it’s just such typical bullshit that a white man has co-opted female culture and silenced women of color and stolen the voice of the disenfranchised yet again. I mean look at his hair! What’s that about? Is he mocking women? How is this any different from blackface? This whole video is like cultural rape. At the very least, it’s promoting a culture of cultural rape. Shame on you, Kevin, you bully rapist.
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He doesn’t mention James Franco, but I guess that would be too on the nose.
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Harvey Keitel’s penis has been places that Harvey Keitel can’t imagine.
Well, now there’s something for Tina and Amy to sing about next year.
Pleasepleasepleaseplease.
How the hell do the Golden Globes get Tina and Amy, but the Oscars get Seth MacFarlane? Do they just have a bigger budget?
the (dare I say) brilliance of We Saw Your Boobs was the set up that thanks to Captain Kirk, McFarlane DIDN’T do that song, which WOULD HAVE offended people, therefore technically there was never any song to be offended by.
…Did they reverse-break the fourth wall?
You make the only clear point I’ve seen from anyone referencing this whole thing. Technically the song only existed in some universe where McFarlane did a song that offended a bunch of people, so the stupid song was *supposed* to be offensive. Duh: the f**king joke. And the whole thing is lost on an over-sensitive public, just like when I explain how it’s the alternate “me” making those Korean jokes at the asian market!
Lol
The joke would have worked better if Captain Kirk had criticised the song for being “sexist,” then in response McFarlane launched into “We saw your junk” to balance things out. That would have been way funnier.
In fact, after the “we saw your boobs” song I expected that’s where things were going, but then they suddenly launched into an entirely random dance sequence with JGL and Harry Potter which made no sense.
But the punchline is that he still did it. In full. If they’d shown a quick clip of it and then cut away, fine. The joke was that everyone was “scared” about what MacFarlane might do, as though he hasn’t been telling the same stale, obvious jokes for over a decade.
Great. Now I’m offended there isn’t an equal song for female genitals.
“We saw your cunt. ♫ We saw your cunt. ♫ In the movie that we saw we saw your cunt.”
C’mon, Karribiner, she’s a 9-year-old girl!
idk…. maybe I loose my feminist card but I wasn’t offended. Seth McFarland was pretty terrible before that and I’d rather have a song about boobs than that terrible monologue….
I talked it over with the sisterhood and you get to keep your card, so that’s a relief! I admit that I totally pick and choose what I’m offended by and it usually has to do with whether it’s actually funny or not. I do laugh at things that also offend me sometimes but I find Seth MacFarlane and all his projects really unfunny. I think because he expects us to laugh just BECAUSE he’s being offensive. Like, if you’re really funny and you happen to say something offensive, I will still love you and laugh. But if you’re offensive and just expect it to be funny, no. But obviously I’ve based it all on my personal preference for comedy.
I thought it and the rest of his stuff was funny
Hahaha, women ARE so annoying when they notice sexism! Not me though, I’m like one of the cool ones. I don’t even have any female friends because DRAMA and NAG NAG NAG.
I’m glad I’m not like other girls. I’ve always been more comfortable with my male friends!! Girls are just so catty, like beatrixkiddo. What a bitch.
I wish Joan Holloway would all me a bitch in real life. It would be like staring in to the face of god…
Or the treacherous Bosom of St. Michael.
Hey, how do I get Google to forget that I searched for “Where do Korean guys hang out?”
Here’s an opinion I bet a few lurkers have: “Dude, you can’t satirize something liberal if you lean left yourself, it’s against the rules of opinion-having.
“And shit.”
I satirize what I know, man.
Overheard just now from over my shoulder: “Wow Ashton really let himself go after Mila moved in…”
From AV Club:
OK, that was a funny joke. The feminists at AV Club are fucking awful.
We saw your boobs *might* have been funnier if it had actually contained jokes.
To be fair, it had two jokes. “We saw your boobs” and the fact that Kate Winslet gets naked a lot. Not terrible, but not really enough to sustain a two and a half minute song either.
And Scarlett Johansson’s leaked nudes.
And J-Law’s reaction to people not seeing her boobs.
It’s not sexist because #1) A man’s anatomy is hideously ugly. If women had hairy turkey wattles dangling under their tits, far fewer people would want to see them. #2) Men are the aggressors. They skewer women with those knurled gaffs between their legs. So, to write a song about their junk is tantamount to penning an ode to female submission.
Better title: “We Saw Your Instrument of Oppression”.
The only joke I legitimately had a problem with was the Zero Dark Thirty “Ladies be clingin’ onto things like that one time I banged a stripper and my girlfriend just would not let it go” because you know it absolutely kills hard-core red state sexists that a woman was instrumental in finding Osama Bin Laden, rather than just a pack of long-dicked Navy Seals.
CHECK YOUR PRIVILEGE, MANCINI!
How is Seth a hypocrite? Just wondering cause that makes little to no sense… (don’t mistake this for me being offended, just perplexed at the illogical nature of the lyrics…)
Vince, how’d you feel about your good friend Lindy West’s post on the matter? Did that take the shine off for you at all?
The shine off what? This video, or Seth MacFarlane’s performance in general? I thought he was fine. Not great, not terrible, and not offensive. He was exactly what I expected from Seth MacFarlane. I love Lindy, I always respect her opinion, and I think she’s talented as fuck. I can see how stuff like the We Saw Your Boobs song and the Zero Dark Thirty joke would be offensive in the larger context of shit like congressmen talking about “legitimate rape” and honor killings and people trying to deny women reproductive rights. I get the sense that she and a lot of my other friends (who posted hers or the New Yorker’s or Vulture’s takedowns all over my Facebook timeline) see Seth MacFarlane’s jokes as part of that larger continuum. Whereas I don’t. I separate the two. I don’t think Seth MacFarlane is somehow contributing to this broader, insidious culture of sexism (which I don’t deny exists). To me, he’s like a little kid in blackface. Like a child in blackface, Seth MacFarlane’s jokes aren’t inherently offensive, they’re only offensive in that they remind people of this larger context of historic oppression. Just like a little kid who doesn’t know the history of minstrel shows and is just trying to mimic what his friend looks like, not mock or dehumanize him, because he has no knowledge of oppression and places no inherent value on blackness or whiteness other than a color. Seth MacFarlane, he might pull a pigtail, but that’s not the same as, and I don’t think it contributes to, people thinking date rape is okay, say. IMHO. Should a guy like Seth MacFarlane know better? To some extent (the boobs song much more so than the Zero Dark Thirty joke to me), yeah. It’s easy to Monday Morning QB, but still, I would’ve known better than to do that song (it wasn’t that funny, for one thing). But I think there’s an important distinction to made between mild ignorance and actual prejudice or disenfranchisement, and a lot of these cultural critics just choose to ignore that distinction. I think it does them a disservice. I don’t think it’s fair to do a Freudian close reading on a hacky joke and then assume that your finding was what the hacky comedian intended all along. I think it’s better to let the small stuff go so that people don’t ignore you on the big stuff. But it’s a friendly disagreement. I think we’re all basically on the same side.
I agree with Vince but I’d like to append a personal anecdote: please know that policies concerning children in blackface can vary between school districs. So maybe check a website, or just call beforehand…FYI